The discussion is about displaying a global ‘upcoming events’ calendar. AKernelPanic thanks the plugin creators and asks if it’s possible to display the upcoming events calendar at the top of a chosen category, which would aggregate all event topics. nathank shares similar issues with their dedicated events category, including the difficulty of getting a topic list of all accessible events and the confusion caused by multiple calendars. nathank suggests two solutions: making the calendar in a category dismissable/shrinkable and creating a sitewide calendar/topic list. ludwikc agrees with nathank and references a related post, while Andrew_Rowe agrees with nathank about the calendar taking up too much page real estate.
Hello!
First, I wanted to thank you for this stellar plugin. We recently enabled it and it’s already seen a lot of great use and reception. One question I have is if it’s possible to have it display the upcoming events calendar that aggregates all event topics at the top of a chosen category.
For example, we currently have an Events category with a calendar at the top, but that only displays event topics created within that category. Being able to have that master calendar at the top would make it easy for folks to find and alleviate some confusion.
I’ve got a dedicated events category, which now sorts absolutely brilliantly thanks to some great work by the CDCK team over the last year. It can display a calendar too, which is really good.
However, we do have three moderate issues that remain:
It is tricky to get a topic list of all (accessible) events in the site
the Upcoming Events calendar does this, but without a topic list
I need to tag every event and then surface a tag list to achieve this (I’m sure that is automatable but it is a bit messy)
If I have a calendar in my Events category, people get confused by which calendar to use.
also, it takes up a lot of page real estate, making the topic list difficult to read.
People constantly ask me why the Site Events and the Site Calendar are on different pages
Suggestion 1
When a calendar is displayed in a Category, it is dismissable / shrinkable
Suggestion 2
That there is a sitewide calendar / topic list (also with a dismissable / shrinkable calendar) that functions the same way